Pueblo Dance Ceremony [SOLD]

This original painting by Tonita Peña (Quah Ah) of San Ildefonso Pueblo was probably painted in the early 1930s. The image depicts a pueblo dance in the traditional style with no ground plane and no background. In her paintings of dancers such as this she was able to make her dancers appear in motion rather than fixed in time.

This original painting was selected by Avanyu Publishing to be used for the jacket cover of the book Tonita Peña, by Samuel L. Gray. A first-edition copy of the book accompanies the painting.